Month: February 2015

An exhibition has been incredibly inspiring and will influence my art in the future. Artist rooms have brought Louise Bourgeois in Southampton City Gallery, I have now seen it four times, and it inspired me on every one of these occasions.

I have been struggling to achieve a representation of memory that I was happy with. This showed me that memory is fragmentary. So far I have been trying to come up with a complete scene and was frustrated as this was not working. When I reflect on childhood memories, it is always the fragments that are crustal clear and the scene as a whole is obscure and suggested rather that coherent. Sometimes these fragments are parts of carpet and furniture and the people are bleary.

The inescapable reference to primitive religion and cult objects, is particularly inspiring.